The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain

by Crosbie Smith

Book Overview

Although we take it for granted today, the concept of "energy" transformed nineteenth-century physics. In The Science of Energy, Crosbie Smith shows how a North British group of scientists and engineers, including James Joule, James Clerk Maxwell, William and James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, and P. G. Tait, developed energy physics to solve practical problems encountered by Scottish shipbuilders and marine engineers; to counter biblical revivalism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226764214
• ISBN13: 9780226764214
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 411 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"